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Soman, Laurie A.; And Others – 1992
Designed to help social service agencies achieve a comprehensive system of care for chemically dependent pregnant and postpartum women and their drug-exposed children, the model described in this report was developed by a panel of 12 experts in the field of perinatal addiction and drug exposure in infants. The report begins with an overview of…
Descriptors: Access to Health Care, Alcohol Abuse, Check Lists, Child Health
Shonkoff, Jack P.; And Others – 1993
These three papers report preliminary findings of an early intervention collaboration study on developmentally vulnerable infants and their families in Massachusetts and New Hampshire. Subjects, 190 infants with Down syndrome, motor impairment, or developmental delays of unknown etiology, were recruited from 29 community-based early intervention…
Descriptors: Child Development, Child Rearing, Coping, Developmental Disabilities
Meins, Elizabeth – 1997
This book investigates children's security of attachment in infancy and its relationship to their cognitive development in the preschool years, presenting evidence that caregivers' proclivity to treat their infants as mental agents and to attribute intentionally to their behavior is critical to their child's cognitive development. The book…
Descriptors: Attachment Behavior, Child Language, Cognitive Development, Comparative Analysis
Ehrle, Jennifer; Adams, Gina; Tout, Kathryn – 2001
Despite the growing interest in the care of children younger than age 3, there is little national information available on their current child care arrangements. This study used data from the National Survey of America's Families on the types of care, hours in care, and the number of nonparental arrangements for under-age-3 children of working…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Comparative Analysis, Day Care, Employed Parents
Borge, Anne I. H.; Rutter, Michael; Cote, Sylvana; Tremblay, Richard E. – Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 2004
Background: Some research findings have suggested that group day-care may be associated with an increased risk for physical aggression. Methods: Cross-sectional maternal questionnaire data from a representative sample of 3431 Canadian 2- to 3-year-olds were used to compare rates of physical aggression shown by children looked after by their own…
Descriptors: Employment Level, Aggression, Mothers, Child Care

Hutcheson, Jacqueline; Black, Maureen – Early Education and Development, 1996
Examined psychometric properties of Parenting Stress Index. Subjects were 191 low-income, urban African American mothers. Found acceptable subscale internal consistency and stability over six months. Concurrent validity revealed high convergence across measures among mothers reporting consistent stress. Subjects reported elevated stress levels in…
Descriptors: Attitude Measures, Blacks, Infants, Longitudinal Studies

Feldman, Ruth; Klein, Pnina S. – Developmental Psychology, 2003
Examined toddlers' self-regulated compliance to mothers, fathers, and caregivers. Found child emotion regulation and adult warm control in discipline situation related to self-regulated compliance to mother, caregiver, and father. Compliance to parents correlated with parental sensitivity and philosophies. Compliance to caregivers correlated with…
Descriptors: Caregiver Child Relationship, Child Care Quality, Child Caregivers, Child Rearing

Kelley, Susan J. – Child Abuse & Neglect: The International Journal, 2003
A study of 161 substance-abusing mothers assessed 10 maternal risk factors: maternal depression; domestic violence; nondomestic violence; family size; incarceration; no significant other at home; negative life events; psychiatric problems; homelessness; and drug use severity. Parenting stress and child abuse potential was higher for women with…
Descriptors: At Risk Persons, Child Abuse, Depression (Psychology), Environmental Influences
deRegnier, Raye-Ann – Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities Research Reviews, 2005
New knowledge of the perceptual, discriminative, and memory capabilities of very young infants has opened the door to further evaluation of these abilities in infants who have risk factors for cognitive impairments. A neurophysiologic technique that has been very useful in this regard is the recording of event-related potentials (ERPs). The…
Descriptors: Early Intervention, Toddlers, Premature Infants, Risk
Knitzer, Jane; Lefkowitz, Jill – National Center for Children in Poverty, 2006
Compelling evidence from neuroscience about how early relationships and experience influence the architecture of the brain, and in turn early school success, has led to increasing policy and practice attention to implementing child development and family support programs like Early Head Start for infants and toddlers. But, there is also a group of…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged Youth, Toddlers, Infants, Child Development
Harwood, Robin L.; Miller, Joan G.; Irizarry, Nydia Lucca – 1995
Noting that the role of culture in the development of child attachment provides a provocative arena for debate among a wide array of scholars, this book details two studies of cultural differences in the meanings given to attachment behavior by middle- and working-class Anglo and Puerto Rican mothers. The book reviews the cultural adaptationism…
Descriptors: Attachment Behavior, Child Development, Context Effect, Cross Cultural Studies
Kuczynski, Leon; Kochanska, Grazyna – 1990
Relationships between the function and content of maternal interventions to control their toddlers' behavior and behavior problems and compliance in the child's fifth year were studied. Naturalistic observation of 51 dyads consisting of depressed and nondepressed mothers and their children who were 1.5 to 3.5 years old at the time of first…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Behavior Problems, Communication Research, Communication (Thought Transfer)
Brooks-Gunn, Jeanne, Ed.; Fuligni, Allison Sidle, Ed.; Berlin, Lisa J., Ed. – 2003
This single-volume resource provides detailed information on current large-scale and longitudinal research studies focusing on early childhood developmentthe situations and experiences of young American children. Twenty-eight studies are profiled, addressing such issues as early childhood interventions for children in poverty, neighborhood…
Descriptors: At Risk Persons, Child Development, Early Intervention, Emotional Development
Lyons, Dorothy; Keenan, Trisha; Cawthon, Laurie; Felming, Jan; Dickey, Rita; Loerch, Sandy; Shureen, Anne – 1997
This report presents information on infants and toddlers (ages birth to three) with delaying or disabling conditions, who were enrolled in Washington State public services on December 1, 1997, under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, Part H. Major findings included: (1) there was a total enrollment of 5,007 infants and toddlers (2.1…
Descriptors: Definitions, Developmental Delays, Disabilities, Early Intervention
Kopacsi, Rosemarie – 1990
This study evaluates the Barringer School-Based Child Care Center Project, a program within a traditional Newark (New Jersey) high school designed to provide a comprehensive system of support and services for adolescent parents. The evaluation design uses both qualitative and quantitative methods to describe program structure and implementation,…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Adolescents, Child Rearing, Day Care